Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher is a prominent data scientist as well as chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera.[1][2] Along with DJ Patil, Hammerbacher is credited with coining the term "data science".[3] In addition he is on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[4][5]

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Jeff led the Data team at Facebook. Jeff Hammerbacher was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera.[6] Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes,[3] Fast Company , MIT Technology Review,[7] Harvard Business Review,[8] NY Times,[4] Bloomberg BusinessWeek[9][10] and others.[11]

He has been quoted saying, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”[12] about product and engineering talents being employed in masses by companies such as Google and Facebook to work on advertising-related algorithms.

References

  1. ↑ "Why Data God Jeffrey Hammerbacher Left Facebook To Found Cloudera". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  2. ↑ "Management Team". Cloudera. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  3. 1 2 "#2 Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera and DJ Patil, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Greylock Ventures - In Photos: Tim O'Reilly: The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  4. 1 2 Lohr, Steve (2015-03-07). "On the Case at Mount Sinai, It's Dr. Data". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  5. ↑ "Jeff Hammerbacher - The Mount Sinai Hospital". The Mount Sinai Hospital. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  6. ↑ "Jeff Hammerbacher - Chief Scientist @ Cloudera | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  7. ↑ "Innovator Under 35: Jeff Hammerbacher, 28". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  8. ↑ "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  9. ↑ "Best Tech Young Entrepreneurs 2010".
  10. ↑ "This Tech Bubble Is Different". BloombergView. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. ↑ "Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher on the ugly underbelly of Silicon Valley's startup culture". Pando. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  12. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech-bubble-is-different
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